#since

* Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free ↗

— Bryant McGill

#love #self-control #sincere #love

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love, he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you, he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#romance #sincerity #love

* You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it ↗

— Bryant McGill

#sincere #truth #love

True kindness ennobles the giver ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#kindness #love #sincerity #love

Sincerity is almost love. ↗

— José Eduardo Agualusa

#sincerity #truth #love

Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We’re not supposed to have it handed to us. ↗

— Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

#morality-without-religion #new-sincerity #pop-culture #change

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

People hate sincerity because it threatens that horrid structure they’re maintaining in their whole social lives. ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#sincerity #inspirational

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#another #assumed #dance #dancing #even

There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#men